Xianling Is Difficult Here Too

The cave was only two meters deep, with a stone blocking the end.

When Xu Mu placed his hand on it, he realized that it was part of the formation covering the ruins.

After channeling qi into it, he and Ying Weiyang stepped into the ruins together.

The scene inside the ruins was much the same as the world outside. Perhaps the purpose of these ruins was to conceal this battlefield of the gods.

The only difference was that it was somewhat darker here than outside.

Xu Mu looked up and was so stunned that his eyes widened.

He had never seen anything like this before. High above them, in the sky, floated an irregular fragment of a meteorite.

But calling it a meteorite seemed inaccurate. Xu Mu could even see rivers and vegetation on its surface.

The fragment high above was slowly moving from the left side of the ruins toward the right.

“Something’s happened.”

Xu Mu looked up and said, “If I’d known this would happen, I would’ve come in with them. I can’t fly yet, and I don’t even know whether Cloud Step can carry me that high.”

“What do we do?”

Ying Weiyang asked from the side.

“What else can we do? We’ll try first!”

Xu Mu wrapped his arms around Ying Weiyang, bent his knees, and unleashed all his strength, jumping toward the sky.

He definitely couldn’t use Cloud Step for the first leap. Only after his body began to descend did Xu Mu perform Cloud Step, stepping on the air and launching himself upward once again.

Using this same motion, he flew higher step by step.

As his momentum waned, the height he could reach with each jump also decreased.

Yet the piece of land high above was still far away. At least now, however, he could clearly see the ground on its surface.

“No. I’ll have to risk everything.”

Xu Mu unleashed his final Spark, pouring half of his qi into the next step.

Pfft!

Blood-red qi erupted from his body, and the air beneath his feet suddenly compressed and exploded.

Boom!

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, his body shot rapidly into the sky once more.

After flying a great distance, his speed gradually slowed.

“I can’t go any farther. We’re about to fall!”

Even as Xu Mu spoke, however, he suddenly began flying rapidly upward instead.

He was momentarily stunned, then smiled. “We’ve entered the gravitational range of this land in the battlefield of the gods. That means we’re falling upward.”

He immediately turned around in midair and adjusted his posture. While descending, he also took the opportunity to recover his strength.

Boom!

Xu Mu’s legs landed firmly on the ground of the battlefield of the gods.

The earth split apart in every direction, and his legs sank into the ground all the way to his thighs before finally stopping.

He released his astral qi, shaking away the surrounding soil, then set Ying Weiyang down.

“We finally made it up.”

Ying Weiyang looked up at the height above them. That was the land they had come from.

Xu Mu immediately sent a telepathic message to Chen Xuan. “Old Chen, are you there?”

But Chen Xuan gave no response.

Xu Mu placed his hand on the ground and carefully sensed it. Sure enough, it was just as he had guessed.

The reason this piece of land had survived was that it was completely covered by a powerful formation.

“Let’s go.”

Xu Mu stood up and headed into the distance.

He spread out his senses, but there wasn’t a single person within their range. There were no sounds anywhere around them—not even the sound of wind.

“Where are we going?”

Ying Weiyang asked as she followed beside Xu Mu.

Xu Mu pointed toward the distant mountain peak. “Over there. The higher we stand, the farther we can see. We’ll get a look at the surrounding terrain first.”

They had only taken a few steps when the ground suddenly began to tremble.

“Holy crap!”

Xu Mu immediately lowered his head and saw a basketball-sized ant head suddenly drilling out of the ground.

Its mandibles were like pincers, clamped tightly around his left foot.

“Ah!”

Ying Weiyang cried out from the other side as well.

Xu Mu immediately drew his sword and severed the ant’s head with a single slash.

The next moment, he cut off the head biting Ying Weiyang and grabbed her before leaping into the air.

Xu Mu rolled up his trouser leg and saw a faint red mark around his ankle.

Ying Weiyang also crouched down to inspect her ankle. There was only a slight bruise where she had been bitten.

“There are dangers everywhere,” Xu Mu remarked.

Fortunately, both of them had exceptionally powerful physiques. If an ordinary person had suffered that attack without warning, their foot might have been bitten clean off.

Furthermore, the ant just now had been a product of the formation. It wasn’t a real creature.

That was why Xu Mu’s senses hadn’t detected it.

“Xu Mu, should we go back?”

Ying Weiyang asked from the side.

“Damn it! I told you not to come, but you insisted. Now that you’re here, you want to leave?”

Xu Mu grabbed Ying Weiyang’s hand and carved a communication formation onto the back of it. “How about I build you a little dark room so you can hide inside and wait for me?”

“No! I’m coming with you.”

Ying Weiyang looked at him seriously.

“Then keep walking. We’re already here, and I’m not going back now.”

Xu Mu grabbed Ying Weiyang by the shoulder and began making light leaps. Ant heads appeared from the ground from time to time, but Xu Mu dodged them all.

Suddenly, Xu Mu seemed to pass through a barrier, and the world before his eyes abruptly changed.

He had originally been in a forest, but now he found himself on an ancient battlefield filled with smoke and flames.

The trees around them had largely collapsed, and numerous areas were burning.

Crack!

Xu Mu suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and turned to look.

What he was holding was not Ying Weiyang at all, but a blue-faced monster with fangs.

The monster bit down on Xu Mu’s shoulder, but its fangs shattered without even piercing his skin.

“Damn!”

Xu Mu punched the monster in the head, smashing it to pieces on the spot.

Inside the shattered head was nothing but a hollow cavity. There wasn’t a trace of flesh or blood.

“Weiyang, can you hear me?”

Xu Mu sent out a telepathic message.

“Xu Mu, where am I? There are so many monsters here!”

Ying Weiyang’s voice came from the other side, clearly carrying a sobbing edge.

“Don’t be afraid. Just run and don’t fight them. I’ll find you immediately.”

After sending the message, Xu Mu tried contacting Chen Xuan again.

“Old Chen, are you there?”

“I’m here! Brother Mu, you finally came. I’ve sent you hundreds of messages already.”

Chen Xuan’s voice came from the other side. “Everyone else has been separated too. I can’t see them, but I feel as if they’re right in front of me, because those blue-faced, fanged monsters suddenly shatter on their own.”

“What?”

Xu Mu immediately spread out his senses and was surprised to discover two people ahead, roughly three hundred meters apart.

One of them was an old acquaintance.

She was Xianling Nan of the Baishi Clan.

She wore a horse-faced skirt with a black top. Her long black hair was slightly disheveled, and beneath her straight bangs, one eye was black while the other was golden.

At that moment, she was leaning against a rock and breathing heavily.

There were still traces of blood around her ankle, and her face was covered in blood as well.

Xu Mu walked toward her and stopped in front of her.

Judging from her expression, she had no idea he was there.

Xu Mu crouched in front of her and raised his hand, a ball of flame appearing in his palm.

She remained expressionless.

“Even qi can’t detect me.”

As Xu Mu spoke, he lowered his hand toward her shoulder to see whether he could touch her.

The instant his hand landed on her shoulder, Xianling Nan immediately unleashed her strength, rolling away toward the distance.

“Who’s there?”

Xianling Nan looked around, trying to determine who was there.

Xu Mu couldn’t hear her words directly. He had detected them through his senses.

This proved that without using the sound-transmission array, she couldn’t hear herself speak.

Thinking of this, Xu Mu started walking toward her again.

This array formation really was interesting. He could hardly wait to meet Hathaway.

She had destroyed his little gu worm and even tried to kill him. When they met, he would give her a few thousand-year kills first.